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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My personal philosophy that has served me well is.. never hire a professional that is a product of AA. The standards were lowered too much, commitment and capacity is not either. The few times I went to doctors for emergencies, the AA candidate proved my philosophy right. [/quote]

You conveniently left out other categories of students who get into highly selective schools even with sub-par academic credentials - 1. Legacy preference, 2. Recruited Athletes, 3. Massive donations, 4. Children of Big Power (political), Big Business people, 5. Children of Faculty and Staff.  All these students have much higher probabilities of getting admission than do similarly qualified non-hook students.

If you are for eliminating AA preference, you should also be for eliminating preference for the above categories as well, unless of course you are an hypocrite due to being a racist. [/quote]

This is a type of AA preference.  At Harvard, it's called, "Z-list."  One requirement is Harvard-imposed gap year before enrolling.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/6/17/admissions-docs-zlist/[/quote]

Z list is for connected people.   AA preference kicks in way before you get that far in the process.  [/quote]

It's for [b]connected kids who don't have the stats[/b].  It includes AA for connected people Harvard can't afford to offend.  [/quote]

This is false. A colleuge's super smart kid turned down MIT this year to start next year at Harvard after a gap. They're not "connected" or filthy rich. I think the kid got off the waiting list and they made that gap year offer.[/quote]

Sample size of 1.  And who knows what "colleuge's super smart kid" turned down?  [/quote]

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